Mike Vizard is a veteran IT journalist with more than 25 years of experience covering the technology industry, having previously served as Editor-in-Chief of both CRN and InfoWorld and as editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise, where he oversaw titles including eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline. Over his career he has also edited or contributed to a wide range of enterprise technology publications, including IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, ComputerWorld, TMCNet and Digital Review, and he later led editorial for CTOEdge.com. His reporting and analysis span software development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT channel strategy and, more recently, artificial intelligence and DevOps practices. A recognized voice in enterprise IT journalism, Vizard is known for tracking emerging technology trends as they move from early adoption into mainstream enterprise use. He now serves as Chief Content Officer for Techstrong Group, where he oversees editorial strategy across the full network — DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Digital CxO, Techstrong.ai, TechStrong.IT, Techstrong Semi and PlatformEngineering.com — in addition to writing and hosting content for Techstrong TV and the Techstrong Gang podcast.
Kong Updates Service Mesh to Replace Load Balancers
Kong today announced the general availability of version 1.4 of Kong Mesh that the company says could eliminate the need for traditional load balancers in decentralized IT environments running microservices-based applications. Marco ...
TrapX Security Brings Deception Platform to Container Environments
TrapX Security this week announced that its deception platform for misdirecting attacks against IT environments can now be deployed in container environments. Steve Preston, TrapX CEO, says version 7.2 of TrapX DeceptionGrid ...
Kubernetes 1.22 Arrives to Giveth and Taketh Away
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for Kubernetes announced today general availability of a 1.22 update that is likely to be remembered as much for what it gives as for what it takes ...
TriggerMesh Previews Integration Language Based on HCL
TriggerMesh has made available a preview of a TriggerMesh Integration Language (TIL) that makes it simpler to create and maintain integrations in Kubernetes environments by eliminating the need to rely on YAML ...
Oracle Unveils Unified Container Deployment and Management Platform
Oracle today unveiled a container deployment and management platform for both Kubernetes-based cloud-native applications and legacy Java applications designed for the WebLogic Server platform that have been containerized. David Cabelus, senior principal ...
Windocks Extends Reach of Cloud-Native Data Repository
Windocks has extended a cloud-native data repository, which is based on an instance of the Docker container format, to add support for Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and NoSQL database platforms in addition to ...
Rafay Extends Reach of Kubernetes Management Platform
Rafay Systems this week extends its Kubernetes Management Cloud (KMC) to provide more control over entire Kubernetes environments spanning a fleet of clusters. In addition, the latest version of the Kubernetes management ...
Red Hat, Nutanix Ally to Spur OpenShift Adoption
Red Hat revealed today it is allying with Nutanix to help drive adoption of the Red Hat OpenShift platform based on Kubernetes on top of the virtual machine and operating system software ...
Threat Stack Deepens Threat Discovery Reach for Amazon EKS
Threat Stack announced today it is extending its threat monitoring platform for the public cloud service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) on the ...
SODA Foundation Extends Open Source Storage Reach to K8s
The SODA Foundation has added support for the container storage interface (CSI) used to attach storage systems running its open source software-defined storage (SDS) software to Kubernetes clusters. In addition to providing ...

